The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-02-26
CITY WONDERFUL.

CITY WONDERFUL.
Graphic Comparative Pictur. of the English
Capital.
Mr.. Carpenter writes to the Cleveland
Leader: What "a wonderful place is Lon
don. The English statesman, John
Bright, says he has lived six months in it
every year for forty years, and yet he
knows nothing about it. Heinrich Heine,
the German poet, calls it the greatest
wonder of the world. 1t amazes the stran-
ger and his mind is bewildered in trying
to appreciate it's extent. He travels hun
dreds Of miles through its streets only to
find hundreds of other miles as busy and
as thronged over which to go. Figures
tell him nothing, for the numbers are too
large for hin to comprehend them. He
despars of measuring the city by intel
lectual metes and bounds. and ends with
the same conclusion as Heine.
A few comparisons may, however, give
some conception of this great city. Its
population is more than three times that
of New York and Brooklyn combined,
and it is twenty times the size of Cleve-
land or Washington city. 1t contains one
sixth of the population of England and
Wales, and it is the most cosrnopollte city
on the globe. 1t contains more Catholics
than Rome, more Jews than Palestine,
more Ilishmen than Dublin and more
Scotchmen than Edinburgh. Its Lord
Mayor gets IA salary as large as our Pres
ident, and its expenses as a city are equal
to those of our Congress.
The yearly increase is equal to the ad
diton of city Of 40, 900 persons, and the
strangers who arrive daily would make
city of 100, 900. In it 1913 babies are born
every day, or one every twelve minutes,
and five every hour. 1t has seven acct
dents every day upon its streets and
death every eight minutes.
The streets of London if stretched out
in one line would reach 5000 miles. or
from New York to San Francisco, AMI it
miles of streets every year. These streets
contain zoe, 600 houses. and about 1000
new houses are built yearly. 1t takes
$4,000 cabmen to carry the people through
these streets, and London pays in cab
fares every year from ola, 900, 600 to $50
600, 900, or nearly twice the cost Of our
National Capitol building at Washington.
The value of property in London out
vies the widest dreams of wealth of
Monte Cristo or the Arabian Knights
The land in the city of London proper,
which makes only about one section (632
acres) of the 700 sections, or the 100
square miles OF the city, has during the
day, population of 800, 900 business men
and their employees, and 70, 900 vehicles
enter and leave this territory daily. The
traffic here is one perpetual jam, and the
property is the most valuable IN London.
A piece sold there the ether day which
brought price equal to $40, 100000 an
acre. London property has doubled in
value i'll twenty years. aud this increase
still goes on.
There are 1900 churches in London
and if all the people wanted to attend
only one-tenth of them could be accom-
modated. The railways of London have
$50 miles of track, and tho underground
railways alone carry every year more than
twice as many passengers as there are
men, women aud children in the United
States. There are nearly thousand
omnibus drivers. and all of the omnibuses
have seats outside on top, and inside as
in America. Each bus earns on an aver
age $40 week. and the average fare is
five cents There are also 700 tram cars,
and it is estimated that each bus driver
makes eighty miles every week, equal to
a distance around the world every six
years.
abroad, as England is not able to raise
enough for its own demand. London
alone eats 500, 900 oxen year, or a num-
Der which, if driven in single file with
the nose OF one attached to the tail of an
other, would reach from New York to
Chicago, and some 500 and more on the
other side. She consumes nearly 1000,
600 sheep. calves and pigs, nearly enough
to make a single file line from New York
to San Francisco, and her great stomach
yearly digests 5000, 600 head OF poultry
and game. She annually swallows $780,
000, 900 oysters and picks out Of her her
teeth the remains of 1900 thousand salmon.
Her butchers bill alone amounts to $3.50,
600 600 and it takes 1000, 900 tons of Goa
to keep her warm.
Down her Gargantuan throat in and
out of her 1900 saloons is yearly poured
$50, 900. 900 quarts of beer, ale and porter,
or enough to supply each mau, woman
and child in the United States with three
quarts; if we had for one year the spirits
and wine drunk in London, we could
give out of the amount an allowance of
pint Of wine aud full goblet of liquor
to every one of our population and have
some thousands OF gallons to spare.
1t costs 81, 900 900 year to pay Lon
don's gas bills, and it costs her about Sc
600, 900 a year tor her police. There are
IA, 900 policemen in London, and the
crime of that city is one-third of the
kingdom.
AS to amusement; one can go to diff
ferent place hero every night for the 365
days in the year, and he would yet have
to leave over 100 places unvisited. There
are 40 theatres here and 400 music halls,
and the daily visitors to these amount to
800 900 persons.
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